Late last year, African–American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower made the New York Times bestseller list, 27 years after it was published and 14 years after the author’s death. The book is a vision of a 2020s California, gripped by a climate crisis and rampant inequality in an apocalyptic capitalist world. Butler’s work is finding a resurgence in an era that feels as if it’s held together by plot points from a dystopian novel.
The Otolith Group’s Xenogenesis draws on science fiction to create an unsettling mirror of our present time.
Andu Butler, The Saturday Paper, January 30, 2021
